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    Ethyl Maltol - how does this taste to you?

    I'm starting to wonder if I screwed up totally on mixing my EM crystals, or if it is just my sense of taste that is really screwed up. A while back I made a solution of ~1ml and a bit crystals (I have a measuring spoon that says 1/4 tsp = 1ml - the next one in the same series(!) says 1 tsp =...
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    HELP! I need some good guesses from a chemist or seasoned home-extractor

    I chronicled my last extraction experiments here. Basically I did a 48h steep of tobacco in five different mediums: VG, Aq.Glyr, H2O, 60% alcohol and 96% alcohol. During this process something very very weird happened: When I re-filtered my precious drops through a syringe with some cotton...
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    European DIY-ers - look here!

    I started a thread in the Europe-subforum for talking about EU-based vendors of DIY-materials. Come on over and tell us who you buy from, who will ship EU-wide, where the best deals can be had on bases, liquid, flavouring and accessories. Since the movement of goods within the EU/EEA is...
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    European DIY people? Where do you buy your stuff?

    I recently started vaping and mixing my own liquids, and have found the DIY-forum here very helpful. But it is very US-centric when it comes to discussions about vendors and raw-materials. Which is a bit disappointing to me. With the various "bans" on nic-liquid, advertising etc in...
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    Bitter Wizards AND Ethyl Maltol - am I crazy?

    In trying to figure out how to fine tune my home-brew blend I've been thinking a lot about sweetness vs harshness/dryness, and all the complexities in that - even describing it is very hard! My first more serious attempt (extract+base+3drops M-type ad 10ml) was initially far too "dry"...
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    Placebo effect - or do I have something interesting here?

    I have chronicled my first steps in extracting in this thread. Now when I have been using my extractions in various mixes for about two weeks I am really starting to wonder about those elusive WTAs. My first extraction was very little tobacco steeped in 20 ml PGA, 10 ml DW and 2 ml VG...
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    Placebo effect?

    Wrong forum, sorry. Re-posted in the correct place. Please delete this, whoever has the power.
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    Anyone ever used Hangsen concentrates? Can you even call that DIYing?

    I just mixed up a few 6ml bottles of different Hangsen tobacco flavours: Ken/Kent Rothmen/Rothman Dun-hill (sometimes called Deluxe, I believe) And 10ml bottle of Peter Stuyvesant/Peter/Pete Stuyv, which I had tasted in ready mixed before and knew I liked. The recommendation is to use...
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    Finetuning my next blend

    I made a juice a few days ago, detailed here, and now I want to perfect it. This first blend I dubbed "Impro" for "Improvisation", as that was exactly what it was. Basically it consist of 15% my own tobacco extraction 85% PG/VG (can't remember exact ratio, should be between 65/35 and...
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    Extracting from tobacco

    Hi veterans! I'm not sure if I am committing a huge faux pas or possibly even breaking some rules here, but I would be very grateful if someone would take a look at my thread and my questions in the Liquid Extraction From Tobacco sub-forum...
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    The impatient newbie strikes again...

    OK, so I shouldn't even be mixing my own liquids yet, and here I am asking for advice on dealing with extracting some nice flavours and alkaloids from tobacco... :unsure: Anyway, my main motives for wanting to play around with tobacco are (in order of importance): 1. Other alkaloids apart...
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    Impatient newbie vaper didn't follow any advice before jumping in...

    ... but curiously enough, it seems that for me my instinct was right and the advice was wrong :blink: Especially the advice about vaping for a few months before trying DIY - not me! For various reasons the decision to try an e-cig and the decision to make my own liquid were simultaneous: - No...
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    Am I lousy smoker or a very efficient vaper?

    I'm pretty new to vaping - only got my liquids Monday, so have been testing vaping with nicotine for only 2 days now. But I am really confused about what I read in the tutorial here: As a 20-40 cig* a day smoker for over 20 years I should be needing lots of nicotine in my juice, shouldn't I...